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If you're up in the air anywhere near as much as we are, you've likely used Gogo Inflight to get online at 30,000 feet. We've long been awaiting a proper Android app, and it looks like we're closing in on takeoff. (Plane pun No. 1.) Until now, if you wanted to use your Android device on Gogo's network, you'd have to wing it (pun No. 2) and sign in with the mobile browser. It works, but far from a...

Let's face it, there are a lot of you out there with the original Motorola Droid, and it's probably starting to look a little haggard. Tell you what: We're going to give one lucky person our (mostly) brand new Motorola Droid 3. And being the benevolent bloggers that we be, let's sweeten the deal. Here's what we'll do:One lucky person will will our Motorola Droid 3. (You'll be on your own for...

The rumors were true, folks. Sprint's going LTE with LightSquared in a 15-year deal. It sounds a little backward, but the gist is this: LightSquared's going to pay Sprint around $9 billion in cash over 11 years, and in exchange Sprint gets up to 50 percent of LightSquared's "L-Band" LTE spectrum through credits.LightSquared comes out ahead, too, lowering its operating costs and network capital by...

Verizon and Motorola might have launched the Droid 3 with little fanfare, but we'll have none of that here, folks. We present you with the third installment of the phone that nearly single-handedly put Android on the worldwide smartphone map. So what's new with this guy? We've got a larger screen, a dual-core processor and a revamped keyboard, for starters. Plus it's loaded with Android 2.3.4...

Read our complete Galaxy Tab 10.1 review We actually dropped this date on you a few days ago, but Verizon's gone and made it official -- the LTE version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be available July 28 online and in stores. It'll run $529 for the 16GB version, or $629 for the 32GB version. Verizon's press release says it'll be available in metallic gray (see our hands-on with that version...

One of the best things about being the big brother to PreCentral.net is that we get to read headlines like "Roger McNamee is our Hero" and "McNamee and Rubinstein ham it up" and "Funny McNamee video." ... See where we're going with this? McNamee is co-founder of Elevation Partners, the investor group (that includes Bono!) that basically saved Palm from certain death before it was later...

Seems like Samsung sliders are everywhere these days. We just brought you new pics of a Samsung slider with Verizon branding and now a new one has surfaced. There's really not much to say other than "look at the pic." BGR's source says this is destined for AT&T, and that's about it. Looks like a Samsung slider. No word on if it'll be destined for AT&T's upcoming LTE network, or if it'll...

Egads! Our pals at CrackBerry have uncovered this picture of Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt apparently wielding a BlackBerry at a conference in Indonesia. And this isn't the first time the Google exec's been spotted with something other than one of his company's own Android devices.Why, Eric? Why? Let's throw out a few ideas.Even Eric Schmidt has to slum it every now and then.Someone told...

Update: Grrr. Sam's Club, folks. Not Costco.Fresh in from our folks behind the shelves at Costco Sam's Club, we have some new info about upcoming releases. In handy bullet point form are the following:Motorola Droid Bionic. "Pushed to September." Hard to say exactly what this means for the actual Verizon launch date of the Droid Bionic. Presumably one is tied to the other, but a September launch...

Television Verizon's tiered data pricing ends - WCPO-TV On the Nook Color with KWGN-TV in Denver Newspaper/online Quoted in the Palm Beach Post on voicemail hackingQuoted on ABCNews.com on the explosion of Android applications

Read our complete Galaxy Tab 10.1 review And there you have it, folks. Looks like the "official" (insofar as leaked launch dates go) launch date for Verizon's LTE version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is July 28. Interesting is that according to this screen (and confirmed by another at Droid-Life), only the gray version of the Galaxy Tab (see our hands-on with the gray edition) will be...

Youtube link for mobile viewingBlackBerry fans everywhere were astonished Thursday when an early version of the Android Player for the PlayBook leaked out and their little tablets suddenly became usable. Usable as in once you've got Android running on the PlayBook, you suddenly have an e-mail app. Craziness!Pretty cool stuff, especially since it's running Android 2.3.3, and there's a good chance...

Verizon has updated their VZ Navigator application, and along with the new name of Verizon Navigator VX, comes a free 30 day trial for new users, and some cool new features, the highlights of which we've outlined below:Smart Routes with Real-Time Traffic – Updated every 60 seconds, telling you when traffic is ahead and mapping out detours to get you around itVoice Turn-by-Turn Directions – Even...

Update 2: ... And Amazon's pulled the pages. Might we be getting our best look at the Motorola Droid Bionic here, from Amazon? If a pair of product pages are to be believed, we most certainly are. And is that a chrome ring we see around the phone? At the left is the desktop dock, which is billed as "A station with an extra sense. With ESP technology, you decide which apps and short cuts to keep...

Thing 1: Netflix on more phones, fewer tablets Netflix updates its Android app -- and actually includes the update this timeNew Netflix app runs just fine on Honeycomb tabletsEditorial: Netflix's Android rollout an example of a good thing done badlyThing 2: More new phones and tablets Samsung Mobile's JK Shin says to expect Galaxy S II in U.S. in AugustLenovo officially announces pair of Android...

Allow us just a little bit of inside baseball here: Mobile World Congress -- Europe's premier mobile event -- has announced that it's staying in Barcelona, Spain, through 2018. We've attended the past three years, and Android definitely had a huge presence in 2011, taking up a good part of an entire hall with a huge exhibit featuring just about every Android phone in the world, and a host of...

Youtube link for mobile viewing Let's face it: If you want to properly review a kids' app, you've got to get a kid to do it. So we armed Daughter No. 1 with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the "Winnie the Pooh - What's a Bear to Do?" game. It's a simple premise: Pooh loves honey, and it's your job to help him find it by way of a few hidden honey pots. There are a smattering of puzzles to do, too...

Now this is a wee bit interesting. We've gotten word that the Motorola Atrix 4G soon will be off Costco's shelves as some sort of "inventory pullback," and that "a new handset (is) coming soon." And that "coming soon" date appears to be as early as Sunday, July 24. What might that new handset be? An Atrix inventory replenishment? Some sort of tweaked Atrix? Something completely different? News at...

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